History Moments Marking Key National Events
Highlights include the 1913 Panama Canal completion marked by Wilson's telegraph signal as explosives opened the Gamboa dike, the 1845 founding of the U S Naval Academy in Annapolis, Sun Yat-sen's 1911 revolution, 1938 Sudetenland annexation, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty entering force, Agnew's 1973 resignation after tax evasion plea, and Carter's 1978 Susan B Anthony dollar authorization.
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Panama Canal
Woodrow Wilson
White House
Gamboa Dike
U.S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Sun Yat-sen
China
Nazi Germany
Czechoslovakia
Sudetenland
Moon
Spiro T. Agnew
Jimmy Carter
Susan B. Anthony
Arizona sweat lodge injuries and deaths prompt investigation
A sauna like sweat lodge at an Arizona resort sickened 21 of 64 attendees during a two hour session, with two fatalities. Authorities tested for carbon monoxide and other contaminants. results were negative. Investigators weigh medical conditions or fasting and possible criminal action as inquiries continue.
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Arizona
Yavapai County
U N plane crashes killing all 11 in Haiti
A U N surveillance plane on a peacekeeping mission in Haiti crashed into a mountain west of Fonds-Verrettes near the Dominican border. All 11 military personnel aboard were killed. Rescue teams reached the rugged site on foot. no survivors were found.
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U.N
Haiti
United Nations
Michele Montas
New York
Fonds-Verrettes
Dominican Republic
Port-au-Prince
UCLA student stabbed by classmate in lab
A 20 year old UCLA student was slashed in the neck by a classmate in a campus laboratory. Blood smeared the floor as two staffers treated the wound. she was taken to hospital in critical condition but showed signs of improvement days later. Damon D. Thompson, 20, was arrested for investigation of attempted murder.
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UCLA
Damon D. Thompson
Obama ponders troop build for Afghanistan conflict
President Obama, fresh from Nobel Prize news, convened his war council in the White House to hear generals' plans for tens of thousands more troops in Afghanistan. Gen McChrystal outlined options from 10,000 to 40,000, with decisions weeks away and no final plan yet.
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Washington
Barack Obama
White House
Afghanistan
al- Qaida
Obama
Robert Gibbs
U.S
Stanley McChrystal
United States
McChrystal
Missouri lawmaker curses on House floor over hate crime language
On the House floor a Missouri congressman muttered a profanity at fellow Missouri Republican Todd Akin after addressing Ike Skelton. The remark was heard on a C-SPAN tape but not in the Congressional Record. Skelton planned to apologize. the clash arose over extending federal hate crimes law to include violence against gays in a defense policy bill.
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Armed Services Committee
Ike Skelton
Dmo
Todd Akin
Skelton
C-Span
House
Senate
Akin
Journal-World Staff Contacts and Paper Redelivery
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Dennis Anderson
Danderson
Jworld
Caroline Trowbridge
drowbridge@I
Ann Gardner
Agardner
Ljworld
Tom Keegan
Tkeegan
Jon Niccum
Jniccum
L Jworld
Terry Rombeck
Trombeck
Jonathan Kealing
Jkealing
Tjworld
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Sweat Lodge
Ban Ki-moon
Montas
South Carolina
Ocean Creek
Beaufort County
Medical University of South Carolina
Lawrén
Los Angeles
Akcija Gradjana
Citizens Action
NATO
Camp
Butmir
Sarajevo
European Union
Pakistan
al-Qaida
Taliban
Associated Press
Missouri
Jennifer Kohl
Journal-World
N.H
Lawrence
Ijworld
Kansas University
News Partners
Cody Howard
Howard
Sunflowerbroadband
Mediaphormedia
Dan Cox
Dcox
Chris Bell
Tony Berg
Ljworld.com
Kansas
October
Ket-Za
Lennox
Quality Electric Inc
Hite ‘Nlite
Ess Mansered Panter, Inc
Hite
WWW
Hitecollision.com
Joseph R. Gatti
D.D.S
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